Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (FinnishSuomalainen Tiedeakatemia; Latin Academia Scientiarum Fennica) is a Finnish learned society. It was founded in 1908 as a Finnish-language counterpart of the Swedish-language Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, which had existed since 1838.

“If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.”—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)

“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.”—Rudolf Carnap (18911970)

“I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alikeand I dont think there really is a distinction between the twoare always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.”—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)

“A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.”—Gertrude Stein (18741946)